Conservative Inc Reportedly Donates Tens Of Millions For Mike Pence To Conjure Illusion Of America’s ‘Free-Market Capitalism’ For Youth
Establishment conservatives that critics view as corporate rather than organic appear to be backing former Vice President Mike Pence's nonprofit even as younger Republicans grow weary of old-school capitalism.
Establishment conservatives that critics view as corporate rather than organic appear to be backing former Vice President Mike Pence’s nonprofit even as younger Republicans grow weary of old-school capitalism.
Advancing American Freedom (AAF), which Pence founded in April 2021, is talking with donors to coordinate an eight-figure campaign launching in the fall and continuing through the 2028 election cycle to “sell Republican officials and candidates on the importance of free-market capitalism,” POLITICO’s “Playbook” reported Saturday. The campaign comes amid Republican infighting over what role capitalism will play in the party’s platform moving forward.
AAF did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
Pence founded AAF “to promote the pro-freedom policies of the last four years that created unprecedented prosperity at home and restored respect for America abroad, to defend those policies from liberal attacks and media distortions, and to prevent the radical Left from enacting its policy agenda that would threaten America’s freedoms,” according to an April 7, 2021, press release.
A member of the Republican Party’s old guard, Pence has repeatedlycriticized the Trump administration’s tendency to intervene in the economy, particularly with tariffs